Here is the second tree from the sketches with attached poems. The poem is obscure, to…
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Cork on the Water
* I will be OK. * I’ll pop up like a cork on the water. Try…
Solitary Tree
A few weeks ago, I found three tree sketches with attached poems. I’m not sure when…
An Author’s Take: Questions by S.S. Bazinet
I want to thank S.S. Bazinet for the opportunity to talk about my latest book, Snares…
Spring Rain
` The copper-beach triad stretches thirsty leaves towards the sky As the rain starts dripping Colours…
Volcano
Here is the last of my Lanzarote-inspired watercolours Watercolour on Paper © HMH, 2023
Review Bonanza
* Tina-Maria Miller, The Chateau of Second Chances A Retreat to New Openings Chateau Fontaine gives…
Goldcrest
` Is it possible that something this tiny can fly? Yellow and green With hollow bones…
Volcanic Landscape
` Watercolour on Paper ©1984 This is another of the Lanzarote-inspired watercolours. ` © HMH, 2023
Almost-spring
* With a push and a shove, the wind lifted you And sat you down in…
Blog Tour, The First Cut, Jane Renwick Series
` It is a great pleasure to welcome Val Penny to my pages, on her blog…
Landscape with Palms
` Watercolour on Paper Several years ago a friend showed me photos from Lanzarote. The volcanic…
The Diary
` ` It was easy to open the lock on her sister’s book. She just needed…
Autumnal Reverie
* Sweetly fragrant, white roses Defy the twilit afternoon. Beautyberries set purple accents Though their leaves…
A Posy of Reviews
* John Dolan, The Otford Dictionary This Certainly Isn’t The Oxford Dictionary Finished the Otford dictionary…
Spring Morning
* Cool and watery the sun rises * Is there a change in the air? Tentative…
Life, Time, and Eternity
~ It’s already tomorrow although it is still tonight. This is true only from my point…
Making the Rounds
~ Let us to war then. To siege and assault! Although we proclaim it is nobody’s…
The Box
The box hung on the noticeboard at the back of the classroom. Hilde shuddered inside. It…
Phantasm
* A little room A cage with walls that collapse on you. Your terror and confusion…
Another Batch of Reviews
Lally Brown, The Countess, Napoleon, and St Helena Fact and Fiction Mixed with Memoirs ‘The Countess,…
Manifestation
* I don’t know your face. I don’t know your name. Yet, while centuries part us…
Writing prompts
Do They Work? Poisonous Rose A while ago, I visited a prompt generator online and, among…
August Designer
*** Was it premonition Or artistic transgression that Made him paint his future wife as…
Yellow Rose
Digital Painting As I worked on this digital painting, it occurred to me that the rose…